Angular pedestal.



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UNTTED STATES Patented March I5, 1904 1 PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. HOWLAND-SHERMAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND'MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE HOWLAND-SHERMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

ANGULAR PEDESTAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,871, dated March 15, 1904.

Applioation filed November 9, 1901. Renewed August 20, 1903. Serial No. 170,179. (No model.)

To all whom, it Duty concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs H. HOWLAND- SHERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Angular Pedestals, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in angular pedestals.

It has for its objects the production of apedestal comprising the minimum practicable number of parts of the simplest possible construction, the reduction of manufacturing and assembling costs to the lowest point consistent with operative efiiciency, and such an arrangement of the parts of the invention as shall render them capable of being used for pedestals of all desired angularities, while maintaining substantially equal strength for those pedestals of all angularities having equal bores.

My invention is adapted to employment where separable angular pedestals are used for the construction of machine-bearings which have either an important thrust duty or are required to be sustained conveniently with respect to the machine-frames, so as to act within an arc of oscillation whose chord is substantially perpendicular to their angular axes of inclination.

The simplicity of the parts of my invention and the special method devised for assembling the cap and brasses enable it to be made of a relatively light weight, while imparting exceedingly great strength to the construction. This makes possible its utilization in the restricted spaces frequently. required to be 00- cupied by the bearings of presses, punches, shears, &c., where it has often been impracticable to apply separable pedestals and the bearings had to be consequently made integrally with the frames, with the result that any accident destroying the same rendered necessary entirely new frames. It is intended that the economy with which the parts of my pedestal can be manufactured shall render it adaptable also to use in a large class of light mach1nerysuch as threshing-machines, traction-engines, printing-presses, shoemakers sewing-machines, and small steam-engines,

nying drawings and hereby made part of the specification.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a top plan view of my invention, showing the relation of the angular cap and the rear sustaining-arch to thepedestal-base. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my invention, showing the manner in which the brasses are devised to laterally lock the angular cap. Fig. 3 is acentrallongitudinal section showingthe relation of the-brasses to the frame and cap, respectively, the method-of lubricating the pedestal, and the manner in which the cap locks both the inner and outer brasses.

The example of my invention illustrated in Figs. 1 to ,3, inclusive, is a standard thirtydegree to sixty-degree pedestal of the type usually furnished for thrust positions where the outer part has a moderate oscillation around a median center of oscillation having an angle of thirty degrees to base, such as are common in marine-engine work and other expansion and high-duty press linkages.

Referring to the figures, 1 is the base of the pedestal, having at its ends bosses 2 3, through which are bores 4: 5, designed to receive the bolts for fixing the pedestal to machine-frames or foundation-settings. When made as indicated particularly in Fig. 3, the pedestal has a solid base, but when it is secured to moving parts or desired to be lightened in weight for any other cause it may be cored out by any of the customary methods. 

